> they need good people who like though problems; 2k is nothing for those types however
Many people of that type work at universities for comparable compensations. E.g. 50% E13 position at TU Berlin gives you monthly 2k pre tax. If you spend lots of your time to improve the public good, you'll still need something to put food on your table (unless you are financially independent of course, but many people aren't).
basically, if they would offer 50/50-jobs in partnership with public services, where the public service guarantees job security and the Debian project guarantees some oldfashioned hacker-spirit, people would fly at these (or at least I would. People could spend 50% of the time for Debian and push OSS adoption in the public service and develop the basic CRUD in the remaining time.
But.... sadly this is not going to fill the coffers of politicians and consultants alike, so things like these will just be daydreaming until a majority of people is fed up with corruption and not braindamaged enough to believe extremist bullshit.
Many people of that type work at universities for comparable compensations. E.g. 50% E13 position at TU Berlin gives you monthly 2k pre tax. If you spend lots of your time to improve the public good, you'll still need something to put food on your table (unless you are financially independent of course, but many people aren't).